strainingly

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English

Etymology

straining +‎ -ly

Adverb

strainingly (comparative more strainingly, superlative most strainingly)

  1. So as to strain; with a straining action.
    • 2008, Jonathan Nasaw, Fear Itself
      [] as soul-deadeningly, eye-strainingly, sleep-inducingly boring as going through fourteen file boxes of sloppily photostatted bank records.